Miguel Maeztu @AzeriaInvest: "The European Carvana? A company that..."

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The European Carvana? A company that I am researching is called Auto 1. It is a German company that aims to break down the traditional dealer-based car (re)sale model by putting forward a website were consumers can buy directly the car (and merchants too). Similar to Carvana, although Auto1 also caters to dealers, retail being still a smaller part of the business. This business model requires scale to work and Auto1 is still small in terms of market share to achieve the necessary profitability. It faces a fragmented market with several countries and regulations, quite to opposite of the frictionless US market on which Carvana thrives. I will write more about this as I can see scale and one-place-for-all type of opportunity on this business, but capital intensity on the retail side, regulatory barriers and an underlying capable logistics networks are challenging barriers to overcome in order to reach the necessary scale. But hard does not mean impossible! And with the capital intensity it does mean that once at scale, it will be very difficult for competition to strike. $AG1.DE (AUTO1 GROUP SE) $CVNA (Carvana Co) $KMX (CarMax Inc) $SPX500 $ESP35 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳, 𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘊𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 | 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 | 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴

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